No End of a Lesson : Australia's Unified National System of Higher Education.
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- 9780522871913
- 378.94
- LA2108 .M335 2017
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Dawkins Takes Charge, 1987 -- 2 The Winds of Change -- The Predicament of Higher Education -- Australia Reconstructed -- He Who Pays the Piper -- The Search for Solutions -- Changes Abroad -- 3 How to Proceed? -- Higher Education as a Market -- Rethinking the Role of the State -- The Collapse of the Policy Community -- Few Friends -- 4 A Unified National System -- Abolition of CTEC -- A Statement of Intent -- The Green Paper -- User Pays -- Joining the Unified National System -- The New Model of Higher Education -- 5 Amalgamations -- The Process -- The Pattern -- Success and Failure in Two Regional Amalgamations -- Success and Failure in Four Metropolitan Amalgamations -- How Unified was the National System? -- 6 Compliance -- Equity and Access -- Credit Transfer and the Competency Movement -- Staff Management -- Governing Bodies and University Management -- Sticks and Carrots -- 7 Finance -- Funding Expansion -- The Allocation of Funds -- Performance-Based Funding-and Three Years of Rewards for Quality -- International Fees -- Domestic Fees -- A Higher Education Market? -- 8 Teaching -- Changes in Provision -- Open Learning -- Teaching the Teacher -- The Student Experience -- 9 Research -- Setting Directions -- Concentration and Selectivity -- Competition and Control -- Research Training -- Innovation, Commercialisation and Public Research -- 10 The University Changed -- Growth -- Convergence and Differentiation -- The University Brand -- Management -- Managers and Managed -- Conclusion -- Lament for the Lost University -- The Durability of the Unified National System -- A Final Reckoning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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